[♪♪♪] [both laugh] - They will.

They will, they-- Oh hi!

- Hi, everybody!

[laughs] We haven't even got-- we're just getting on the air.

We're already havin' a great time, I'm sorry you missed it.

- [Laban laughs] - No, it's funny.

What were you telling me about the muffins?

- Oh, I'll tell you later on.

- [Larry laughs] - And you'll find out for sure later on.

[laughs] - Laban's doing bran muffins today, so you can just imagine what the conversation's all about.

- Alright, well, aren't these flowers lovely?

They came out of Doris' yard.

- Oh, well, they're real.

LABAN: They are.

LARRY: I thought they were some of those plastique jobs.

LABAN: Ah, no.

And here it is.

When we're taping this-- I don't know, we ought not to tell this, because I know everybody thinks it's live right on their first month, but we're taping this in the dead of winter.

In February.

LARRY: But I remember when-- - And these things [chuckles] had bloomed.

That's the kind of winter we've had in these parts.

LARRY: Well now, that in itself is shocking, but I am still a little shocked because I remember Doris always had all those plastic flowers all over the lawn.

LABAN: Hmm-mm.

[laughs] Yeah, she-she has the famous silk flower farm.

- Ah, she does.

- [chuckles] County.

- And she-she grows silk flowers.

Now if you'd like to know more about that, just write to Doris here.

- [laughs] It-- well, if we were at WJBH, she'd have her own show growing silk flowers.

[both laugh] - If we were WD-JBH we'd have our own show.

- [Laban laughs] - Hey listen, I gotta tell you, Carol Jennings, our lovely directoress-- LABAN: Ah-huh.

- I suppose-- wanted us, she did not want us to miss out on this.

She recently stayed-- I don't know whether I should mention this, at a major hotel.

LABAN: Ah.

[laughs] - We don't know what Carol was doing at this major hotel and we're not questions.

LABAN: Good grief!

It sounds like you're Pat Sajak and we're on the beginning of Wheel Of Fortune where they work for a major insurance company, is that right?

- [laughs] But she says she knows how you and I are always just carryin' on about how everything is sealed for our protection.

- Ah-huh.

- And she says she wants us to know that this particular company has sealed-- - The shampoo bottle?

- Has sealed the shampoo for our protection.

There it is.

Little-little [indistinct].

You just never know when someone's had this on their greasy head and it'll kill you.

- Oh, no, no.

You-- they don't want you to have anybody shoot you just a terrible bad, evil-- - Shampoo.

- Pile of shampoo.

- [Larry laughs] - Might have something in it and make all your hair come out [indistinct] obnoxious color.

- And it-- and look, and it says, sealed for your protection.

- [Laban laughs] - Right on it.

Everything gets sealed for your protection.

- Oh.

It's so good.

- We got some letters?

- Yes, we do.

- [Larry laughs] - "Dear boys, on Saturday around 4 PM, "I start keeping an eye on the clock.

"I don't want to miss your show.

"My daughter can't see what I see in the show, but what does she know?"

- [both laugh] LARRY: Yeah.

Yeah.

- "I love you both although I'm writing my family history.

I take time out to watch Laban and Larry, Cookin' Cheap ."

LARRY: Oh.

- "Keep pitchin', you make my Saturday.

Love, Theresa King."

Now-- well-- - [Larry feigns crying] - Theresa-- that's from Rustburg, Virginia.

- It's wonderful.

[sniffs] - Theresa, w-we thank you so much and we're glad that you recognize what a low dog your daughter is.

[laughs] - Woah.

I don't think that's what I thought he was gonna say.

This person says, "Enjoy the show.

"Been looking for a brittle recipe "that does not call for baking soda in the ingredients.

Thanks a million."

You know that brittle recipe is probably one of the most famous ones we've ever done on the show.

- But you know, you-you have to have the baking soda in it to make it get real snappy and hard.

So there idn't one.

You won't find one without baking soda.

- Oh, well, I didn't make it, so I didn't remember it didn't have any.

LABAN: Hmm-mm.

- Well, so you still don't have one.

- No, we did have some.

- That's right.

Oh, that's-- yeah, yeah.

- And he wants it without.

- "PS.

Got five pounds of shelled black walnuts for Christmas, so we'll enjoy your brittle."

- Hmm-mm.

- You'll also have a conniption fit because it's got that ingredient in there.

- [Laban laughs] - That's from Mrs. Harry Prect of Cape Coral, Florida.

Cape Coral, Florida.

Thank you very much.

Appreciate it.

And here's... - Cape Coral, that's in the western part of Florida.

[laughs] - Be-because-- [chuckles], because you've been so kind to write this letter, we're sending you this lovely shampoo.

Sealed for your protection.

Alright.

What?

- Uh, "Dear sirs, you all make my day each week "with your wonderful sense of humor.

"Keep up the good work.

Many thanks for your show," and that's from Kate Underwood.

"Hope you have a happy Valentine's Day."

And that's from Bristol, Virginia.

Well Kate, thank you so much.

And you make our day by writing us such a nice letter.

[feigns crying] - " Cookin' Cheap , "I sat down yesterday going through the channels looking for a movie."

- [Laban chuckles] - "And came across your show."

- Thought it was one of those cheap [indistinct].

- "Thought it was 'Gone With The Wind'".

- [both laugh] - "And I love it.

For I love to cook, I would like to have recipe,"-- blah, blah, blah, blah.

"And please add the beer batter for the fish."

I think we had a beer batter a couple of years ago?

Or was that the "Beer Barrel Polka"?

- [Laban chuckles] - I can't remember.

"Because I love-- or I have never got your show before.

But will try to be looking for it from now on."

Thank you, Janie Lanier, who invented the Lanier word processor.

- [Laban chuckles] - Of Hurt, Virginia.

Thank you very much.

And I know she's rich.

- Yeah.

Talking about-- - She's got to be fabulously wealthy.

- Oh yeah.

You know, talking about "Gone With The Wind", wonder what characters we would have played?

You'd probably played one of those Wilkes.

[laughs] - Let's go over here to the-- to the old Cookin' Cheap set and a startling overhead shot.

[both laugh] And which gets more startling as every week goes by.

Who could argue with that?

You know what I'm doing speakin'-- I don't know nothin' about my-- LABAN: What?

- Boilin' water.

[laughs] I am.

I'm boiling water.

- Well, it looks like you had a whole lot of water in there and it kind of-- kindly boiled out on ya.

- Well, it did.

I-I do need to add just a little bit.

I am purportedly [laughs] takin' two cups-- I wanna ask you about this first.

LABAN: Alright.

- Let's talk.

[clears throat] Come over here, chum.

Let's just talk a little bit about this recipe.

- Alright.

- I wanna tell you what this recipe calls for before we show it on the air.

Now, I don't know whether it's showing on the air this way, what is this teaspoon-- one teaspoon salt of the earth?

- Well, I think-- - Do you know what?

I'm gonna tell you somethin'.

I went flyin' around for about five minutes and went, "Salt of the earth?"

What in the world?

Now that-- is that opposed to something that's at the ocean?

Or-- and then suddenly, I realized that you had gotten real cute with me, because here is two cups, oh, water of life.

Very hot.

- [Laban chuckles] - And one and a half cups of milk of kindness.

[chuckles] - Well, see I'd been studying my Sunday School lesson in the upper room.

And-- [laughs] And I kind of got Biblical.

- Forgive me.

[laughs] - So you know, salt of the earth, and-- - It's turning into a Sunday School lesson.

- Water of life.

Milk of human kindness.

- Okay.

Ah.

- Ah, but you know, I just thought it was appropriate to, you know-- - It's real cute.

I'm gonna make southern spoonbread.

- Oh, good!

- And I am indeed boiling water, [chuckles], which is the first thing I have to do.

I got to add a little to it.

Why don't you just get right on with yours and then we'll be back to do it.

LABAN: Well, I can't.

- Because I don't think I gotta start right now.

- Wait a minute, Doris?

I don't-- I need a measuring cup.

DORIS: Right.

- I-I can't-- - Well, I have a baby measuring cup.

Here's a half a cup.

- Alright.

LARRY: If you wanna use that?

- Hmm.

- Here-here we go, Doris.

I got it.

He can use two of those for every one that he needs, two for one.

Two for one.

- Alright.

I-- alright, I'm doing bran muffins.

- Two for one.

- [both chuckle] - I'm doing the bran muffins of life.

- Bran muffins of life.

What is this 'of life' routine we've gotten into here?

- I don't know.

I need a spoon now, just to get the flour out of the cup.

- [chuckles] The man is not prepared for this show.

- Well, I do.

Oh, I'm so--, and here's the cup.

- He thought he was down here to do some kind of an interview program.

- But I can't use it.

It's-- what?

Well, I'm sorry.

I'm just-- DORIS: Check your spoonbread.

- I'm-I'm not doing anything.

I'm just waiting for Laban to get organized.

- Check the spoonbread, Doris says.

- Check the-- oh, I gotta check my spoonbread in the oven.

- Anyway, I'm doing these bran muffins.

And they're real good for you.

They clean your arteries out so that if you've got heart trouble, all that cholesterol will be cleaned out by these bran muffins.

LARRY: I wanna knife.

- Among other things.

LARRY: What am I?

Depressed?

Oh, okay.

- [Laban laughs] LARRY: I'm checking my spoonbread.

I had to put my spoonbread in early.

You know, there's no way you can pre-prepare spoonbread.

You can't prepare it the night before.

LABAN: That's one cup.

- You have to do it right now.

- Is this a-- is this a half a cup, Dor?

DORIS: [indistinct].

- Well, the old Cookin' Cheap oven has come through again.

40 minutes for every 30 you need it in the oven.

[Larry laughs] - There's not enough power in this place.

- Well, I'll just keep this.

- Alright.

Here's one's-- And I need one more of these to get two cups of flour.

- Just tryin' to get in your shot.

- Oh.

[chuckles] [Larry clears throat] And I need some more.

Alright, there's-- - Now-now take your time, Johnson.

[chuckles] - Oh, well, I will.

Oh, I've got too much.

LARRY: Take your time, and I'm gonna take another one of these.

- Alright.

There's two cups of flour-- [laughs] Alright, now-- - I've been a little nervous today.

- You-- I should say so.

- [Larry laughs] - Now, this is oat bran.

LARRY: Oh.

- And-- - Isn't there a big-- hasn't there-- I got to rephrase this a little bit.

Ha-- isn't oat bran, all of a sudden, in big demand nationally now?

LABAN: Yes, it is.

You can't hardly get it at the store.

- That's what I thought.

I was gonna say there hasn't ever been a run on oat bran, but I don't know.

I don't use it.

- And I'm using a cup and half of it.

No, it's true.

It's real hard to get-- I had to buy this-- There we go.

Oat bran, and it says, you know, high fiber, hot cereal, this is the three-minute kind.

- Do you ever eat oat bran for breakfast?

- Are you kiddin'?

- [Larry laughs] - No, but it-it's delicious in cookies a-and muffins and stuff.

And I'm gonna add two tablespoons of honey or sugar.

So I got this honey.

- Well, what's it gonna be?

- I want-- oh, look, it's not sealed for our protection.

LARRY: Well, you're right.

Well, you can trust bees.

[both laugh] Who could argue with that?

I noticed also by the way that that's not the-- [both laugh] That that's not the Wilkens's honey.

Will he be hurt terribly?

LABAN: I know.

No, they're-- he's-- no, no, I think he's out of it right now.

LARRY: He's not out of it.

He just sent me a big jar of it last week.

- Well, the dirty dog.

- [Larry laughs] - I don't have any.

- He did.

You know, when I did the show a couple of weeks ago, and I needed it?

- Hmm-mm.

- I used up the last of it and he sent me.

So-- although it was a little dirty, he said.

It had some of that-- what is it?

LABAN: Oh no.

- The-the comb?

LABAN: Yeah, comb.

Yeah.

- Is in there.

But I don't mind that.

I like that waxy stuff.

I like it, I really do.

- And I need a teaspoon and a half of soda.

Or a quarter of soda.

LARRY: Uh-oh.

- And I don't mean a soft drink.

This is the-the baking kind.

LARRY: Not soda pop.

- Umm-mm.

And I need some salt, but I don't have-- - Well, the things you find in this drawer.

Lord, there's a slide of the Grand Ole Opry .

- [sniffs] Oh, here's-- [laughs] Let me-- - Well, why in the world do you reckon somebody to have a slide of the Grand Ole Opry in our drawer.

I don't get it.

This place confuses me.

- Well, I don't [indistinct].

I think Roy Acuff was on that other show they do in here.

[both laugh] If you've seen it, it wouldn't surprise you.

[both laugh] Alright, now I-I'm gonna put the zest of an orange-- [laughs] MAN: Hello, Larry.

- O-o-oh!

[chuckles] I just realized that I was not properly coiffed before I went on.

So I'm coiffing myself.

[chuckles] - I beg your pardon?

- [both laugh] MAN: [indistinct] help you clean it up.

[both laugh] - Now what are you doing?

- I'm zesting this orange.

[both laugh] And [indistinct]-- LARRY: Do you worry a little bit about having the word sun-kissed run into your-- gonna flop in there with the rest of that stuff?

LABAN: No, no.

That's edible stuff.

LARRY: Oh, okay.

I was just worried about it.

Do you know, a couple of weeks ago, I had the real thing on the program.

LABAN: What?

LARRY: Real fresh oranges from Florida.

LABAN: Hmm-mm.

LARRY: Without anything on 'em.

Written on top of 'em.

- What do you think this one is?

Plastic or something?

- [Larry laughs] But this is before-- LABAN: I mean, they spent millions of dollars genetically altering these oranges so that the sun-kissed would come out like a stigmata on the orange.

LARRY: Oh, I see.

- [both laugh] LARRY: Oh, good Lord.

Yeah.

LABAN: Ah!

Geezie!

LARRY: Doesn't surprise me.

25 shows in, we start gettin' real good.

[both laugh] One more left and we're gonna be fabulous.

- [Laban laughs] - I love that zester.

I will have to admit, Mr. Johnson has given me a lot of wonderful things down through the years for my kitchen.

And one-- and believe it or not, something so simple as this zester is-- LABAN: [laughs] I heard that.

- I just stand around for hours on weekends, just have such a good time.

The neighbors haven't seen me out for months.

- Just-- this is a note to the guys and gals in the control room.

Maureen, you'll die for making that remark.

[laughs] LARRY: What'd she say?

- Oh, she made an evil remark.

- And how did you hear her?

- Well, I can tell by the way Mary reacted.

She's out there going totally nuts.

LARRY: Well, they say rude stuff about us back there all the time-- - Oh, I know they do.

LARRY: But I've kind of gotten used to it.

I sort of like it.

- Well, they'll regret it when we're gone.

Okay-- [laughs] - Well, are we gonna be?

Do you know something I don't?

- Oh yes.

You hadn't heard?

- [Larry laughs] - Alright, now this is all the dry stuff and the honey.

And now I've got to do some wet things over here together to make this recipe go-- Larry, you wanna start on yours while I'm-- - Gonna do some wet things.

- Well, yeah.

[laughs] - Alright.

I'm gonna take-- - I got to have four-- let me just tell 'em this-- - [Larry chuckles] - Four tablespoons of melted margarine.

LARRY: [indistinct] giver.

He gives it to me and takes it back again.

I'm gonna take this baking-- LABAN: And another thing-- - [both laugh] LARRY: This baking dish, and I'm gonna throw it up against Johnson's head.

No, I'm gonna take this baking-- This is what?

One and a half quarts?

Yeah.

And I'm gonna take just a little bit of this.

I like this butterized flavored vegetable shortening.

It doesn't matter whose it is, but I kind of like it.

I think it's real nice, especially for a dish like this.

And you should grease thoroughly this thing otherwise you're gonna get in a lot of trouble later on when you try to-- well, I mean, it's not like a cake, you don't have to drop it out.

But still, you don't want it stickin' all over everything.

So, just be real-- just get in there and just have a real good time with it.

Invite neighbors over if you want to and help out.

There you go.

Now g-- ah!

Excuse me.

This has been on the-- on the stove a good while and you know-- oh, I'll just add a little more milk to it in a little bit.

Are you confused thus far?

I know I am.

First thing we're gonna do is, we're gonna get the water hot.

Ordinary water, and it's hot right now.

If I was to stick my hand down in there, it'd just be an awful scene.

Now what we got to do is, we got to take a cup of yellow stone ground meal.

And I had to look around little tad bit, but there's some from not so far away from here.

Where's it from?

No preservatives, artificial coloring, or flavor.

BHA or BHT.

LABAN: Ah.

- Or VHS or-- LABAN: Idn't that one of those loan programs?

- HBO.

[laughs] What?

LABAN: Can't you get a loan?

- And this has a-- you know, I hate to say this, Laban, but this thing has a southern spoon bread recipe on the back of it.

It's better than what I'm gonna do.

[laughs] I'm thinkin' of doin' this one.

- [woman laughs] - I don't know where this is from, but it's near here.

Gamesville, Missouri.

[chuckles] LABAN: Oh.

- It's not even close to being here.

Anyway, now, a nice big cup of that.

Yellow stone ground cornmeal and put that in there.

And it'd be a very good idea if you take a little whisk and whisk it around, 'cause you don't want it to get lumpy.

LABAN: Take a little what?

- Whisk.

LABAN: Oh.

LARRY: Whisk.

- [Laban laughs] LARRY: And whisk it around because you don't want it to get lumpy.

- [Laban laughs] LARRY: And put it aside 'cause you don't want it to get real thick either and besides that, you need to cool down a little bit.

What else?

A teaspoon of salt of the earth.

Just use your imagination.

And a t-tablespoon of shortenin'.

You know, mama doesn't love shortenin'.

[laughs] LABAN: Whoo!

- Good heavens!

A little bit of shortenin'.

LABAN: That-- I [chuckles], we could have been killed in here.

I had that gas on, it was comin' out of there.

LARRY: I-- you know, I needed to say this, but I had been smellin' somethin' for some time and I-- well, I don't want to tell you what I thought it was, but anyway... - [woman laughs] LABAN: I'll swear.

- Where is my cup?

- I don't-- your cup?

- I just had a cup.

[chuckles] Where-- - What kind of cup?

MAN: In the meal.

- The measuring cup?

- Where's-where's-- oh, it's in the meal.

- Oh.

[laughs] - Excuse me.

Ah, I thought somebody come in here and taking it out.

Now what we need to do is we need to have one and a half cups of milk, alright?

One and a half.

There's one, and a half.

And I'm gonna put just a little bit more in because some of my water had boiled out.

Wouldn't you just know?

I'm gonna put that back on because you don't want it to get real lumpy like it just had.

- [Laban laughs] LARRY: Now, it's-- Shut up, Johnson.

[laughs] It'll be alright.

I'm-I'm whisking it out right now.

Now you don't-- LABAN: Well here, let me do it for you.

- No, no, no.

No, no, no, no.

- Now don't burn your sweater on that hot bar.

- Now you don't want this to get too hot at this point.

When you put your milk in, will be a good time to pull it off the stove.

- [Laban coughs] - You know why?

LABAN: Why?

- Because you need to take two eggs and beat 'em up and put 'em in there.

And you don't want it to be too hot when you put the eggs in.

It'll just fry them eggs.

LABAN: Cook 'em.

- Cook 'em.

LABAN: Cook 'em right-- - And you don't want that to happen.

So when you put your milk in, would be a very good time and you cool it down to put your eggs in.

Just pull it off the stove.

Take two eggs and break 'em.

And take 'em and just beat up on 'em a little bit.

- [Laban coughs] - Like so.

And now you gotta put that into the mix also.

That and the milk at the same time, be very good timing for that.

Alright?

Now, after you've mixed it up thoroughly, which we're doing, would be a very good time to put it back on and now you got to cook it for five minutes until it is thickened, which will-- it will do very quickly.

And-and I'll be back in five minutes.

- Oh!

You mean, I got to do some more?

- [Larry laughs] - Alright, now, here's a bowl in which I have beat up one egg with this fork.

[taps bowl] And two-- LARRY: Got a good ring to it.

- Yes, it does.

Turn my gas too, and I'm going to add a half a stick of butter or margarine, actually it is.

Here in the South, they're interchangeable.

Except we don't use butter.

And two cups of buttermilk.

And-- LARRY: Ooh, you know, that's gotta be good.

I hate buttermilk.

[laughs] LABAN: Do-- oh, that's right.

You do, don't ya?

- I don't like it worth a hoot.

- Well, that's where it goes.

- But I-- but I do like it in, you know, biscuits and stuff like that.

LABAN: Hmm-mm.

- It was made to be hidden away in flour.

That's what buttermilk was made for.

- Now, to this, I've got to add one-half cup of molasses.

LARRY: Oh!

Good heavens, I hadn't checked this stuff in six weeks.

- Well, is it burned?

Oh, it's beautiful!

LARRY: It's gorgeous!

Gorgeous.

Gorgeous.

DORIS: [indistinct].

- Ah, it's alright.

Doris, don't freak out.

- [all laugh] - Well, it's still not done.

- [Laban laughs] - [all laugh] - Oh, I can't wait to try it.

[laughs] - Seventy-three minutes in this oven, and it's still not done.

Thirty minutes is all it's supposed to go at 350 degrees.

- Well, you remember when we started out on this season of shows, we had that meeting with the powers around here.

LARRY: The powers that be.

- And-and we said-- LARRY: Ah-huh.

- That one of the major things we needed was somethin' done with these ovens.

- [Larry laughs] - 'Cause they don't cook right.

And they said at the time, that it was because there wasn't enough power in here to do all of this.

LARRY: Hmm-mm.

LABAN: But anyway.

Alright, now I've added my molasses.

Now, all of this wet stuff now goes down into the dry stuff.

And I will-- mix it up.

- I don't think I've ever heard a recipe like this.

All the wet stuff goes in the dry stuff, and it's strange.

LABAN: Hmm-mm.

And now I'm just gonna mix around it with a spoon.

You could use a-a mixer if you wanted to, but you don't absolutely have to.

Muffins don't have to-to be beaten up real tight.

There we go.

- Oh, look at this, Laban.

This stuff has turned into molten-molten lava.

LABAN: Oh!

- Oh, my heavens!

It's flying all over the place.

Get a good overhead shot of that.

- [Laban laughs] - You got to see that.

Now, if you wanted to know what Mount St. Helens is all about-- [both laugh] Oh!

My heavens!

That's horrible.

[chuckles] I'll tell you what to do with that when it stops spurtin' around.

LABAN: No.

- I'm not gonna touch it right now.

- Alright.

Well, now here's our-our batter for our muffin mix, and you can see the orange rind and everything in it.

And you just put it in muffin pans and you bake it in a-- - Do you grease the muffin pans?

- You don't have to.

350 minu-- at 350-- LARRY: Well, [indistinct].

- 350 degrees unless it's in this oven.

[laughs] For six hours.

laughs] On the Cookin' Cheap -- - Bake it at 350 for 20, 25 minutes until they're brown.

LARRY: Hmm.

- So that's all.

And I'll show you what they look like when they come out here in a minute.

- Alright.

Now here's what I'm gonna do.

You take this now when it starts gettin' thick, now that's very nice and thick, alright?

It's thickened up.

And pour it into your pre-greased bowl, like so.

And you put that in the oven and bake it for [clears throat] 30 minutes, 350 degrees.

It's not gonna rise much.

There's not much in it to rise.

That's not what spoon bread's all about.

So anyway.

Well, look at 'em.

Southern Spoon Bread.

One cup of yellow, stone ground cornmeal.

Don't get self-rising.

It's not necessary.

A teaspoon of salt of the earth.

A tablespoon of shortenin' that mama loves so much.

Two cups of water of life, very hot.

I-- [laughs], I can't stand it.

Two eggs, and one and a half cups of the milk of kindness.

Something that's not been seen on this set for some time.

[chuckles] Go ahead.

LABAN: Bran Muffins of Life.

LARRY: Hmm-mm.

LABAN: Two cups of flour.

One and a half cups of oat bran (if you can get it).

Two tablespoons of sugar or honey.

A quarter teaspoon of salt.

One-quarter teaspoons of soda, (not a soft drink but the kind in a box).

Two t-tablespoons of grated orange rind, that's about one orange grated.

Two cups of buttermilk.

One egg.

A half a cup of molasses, and four tablespoons of melted margarine butter.

And that will make your very delicious bran muffins.

- Are we gonna have the kitchen witch come in?

- Yes.

Ms-Ms Witch told me that she did have a communication for us.

- I hope so.

- It will come right out.

Because you know we need her.

- Well, we do.

- And-And I do warn everybody about these muffins.

- [Larry laughs] - Whoo!

- If you wanna fly around like Ms. Witch-- - [all laugh] LABAN: These muffin-- [laughs] I'll tell you, these muffins will do a number on you.

[laughs] - Oh, my heavens.

- They will work-- oh, well Lord, what a rude piece of stationary.

"Hey fellas, how's about some cake recipes?

"And I don't mean pancake, which you both need to wear.

"What's goin' on?

You both are so pale, you look like you've been in jail."

- [Larry laughs] - And it's signed, Elizabeth Arden, Roanoke, Virginia.

- [both laugh] - Ah, thanks.

- And everybody knows that she is in Roanoke, Virginia.

That's true.

- Yes.

Thank you, Elizabeth, very much for writing to-- ah.

- So anyway, I'm gonna take this out.

I don't care whether it's ready or not.

- Well, here's a spoon.

Here's a spoon that you can use to-- - Oh, of course.

You can't have spoonbread without a spoon.

- Without a spoon.

- That's right.

Well, you know, this stuff's gettin' just right-- - We used to have it with molasses, too.

- And I think if we eat it off the edge, we'll be safe.

[laughs] I think we will.

It is starting to get brown on top.

- Oh, it looks fine.

- Let me just take a little bit off the edge here.

I think it's gonna be alright.

Oh yeah.

- Oh, it's perfect.

- It's-- it is.

It's just right.

Well, just perhaps not quite just right, but very close to just right.

MAN: Sit down.

- Oh, sit down.

Gee, they're getting huffy with me.

Well, pass me one of those, Larry.

- Alright.

Now, here, have one of these delicious bran muffins.

- You know, I'd like to have a little extra butter to put on this.

- Alright.

- But I don't so-- - Alright.

- I guess I'll just sit here.

- And I want everybody to look at this little muffin.

It's-- [laughs] LARRY: It's got ears.

This is a Mickey muffin.

- Looks like Mickey Mou-- Mickey muffin.

LARRY: Mickey muffin.

[both laugh] - There you go.

[laughs] Oh me, Mickey muffin.

Alright.

LABAN: That's just the way it came out.

Well, let's try this stuff and I'll scorch my tongue and scream in pain.

How is it?

- Oh, it's real hot.

Hmm.

Hmm.

Hmm.

Hmm.

LABAN: Well, have a-a muffin.

- It's real hot and real raw.

[laughs] To be quite honest with you.

LABAN: Is it really?

- Hmm-mm.

This is real good.

And right dry.

[laughs] No, it's pretty good.

LABAN: Well, we need some jam or butter on it.

- It-it does.

It needs some jam or butter on it.

- But it'll do a real good job on you.

LARRY: Hmm-mm.

- I'm thinkin' by this time tomorrow, Maureen's gonna be right.

LARRY: Hmm.

- Because, you know, she'll-- [laughs] She'll right out eat all this stuff.

- Well, what do you think of the spoonbread?

[laughs] - It's very hot.

[laughs] - It's molting.

- [Laban laughs] - It is molten lava.

- Actually, it's pretty good.

- But it is good.

[laughs] Enjoy yourself, and I hope you're havin' [indistinct] works.

Bye.

- [Laban chuckles] [♪♪♪]